Hudson added: "I am so proud of the show. It has gone eight years and people are still wanting it to continue, so I'm glad we've managed to go out there and give it a bit of closure.

"I think it'll be a brilliant high note to end on... I think it's sort of the right time to end it. I would hate for it to finish and people go, 'Oh thank God it's finished, it's been going on too long'."